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I have discovered that the symbol font does not render reliably in |
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browsers. Only one of my audience (of about a dozen people) could see |
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the font properly, in a variety of browsers. The one who could is |
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using Firefox, and I have not been able to determine what makes this |
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one special -- I do not have access to that machine to check out |
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configurations. |
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I have a very simple HTML example at |
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http://www.kosmanor.com/~kevin/symbol.html. By rights it should show |
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"The quick brown fox" transliterated into greek letters. On most |
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browsers set up for English, it seems to come out in latin letters, |
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but there are no latin letter in that font, although these same |
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browsers honor requests for a variety of other fonts. This is true |
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even on some machines that definitely have the symbol font, and it's |
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usable in word processing documents. |
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Of course, that sample page is ancient HTML, but the problem first |
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surfaced in HTML email being received on a much more sophisticated |
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page by Yahoo Mail. |
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There's a lot I don't know about character encodings, i18n and the |
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rest, but this still seems discrimination against the symbol font. |
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Any clues out there? |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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